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To enhance productivity, companies such as Entellium are redesigning business software using interactive game techniques. Customer-relationship management software users, for example, can build a dossier of clients and sales prospects that include photographs and lists of likes, dislikes and buying interests like character descriptions in popular role-playing games.
Additionally, Web-based functionality is increasingly mobile. We can call, e-mail or text-message while listening to music, watching videos or playing games, all from one hand-held device. We can also locate friends on-the-go with inexpensive, buddy-finder applications (e.g., Boost Loopt). With buddy-finder tools, users can find each other offline by joining a closed social network that appears as dots on a mobile device.
To complicate matters, according to an April 2007 Pew Internet & American Life Project study on social networks, American teens lead the trend toward ubiquitous Web-based connectivity. In fact, about 55% of American teens already have social networking profiles online. Of those teens with online profiles, about 32% said a total stranger had tried to contact them. Needless to say, ubiquitous connectivity can make supervising online behavior even more challenging for parents.
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